We just witnessed one of the most important speeches by an American official since the end of World War II. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address at the Munich Security Conference in Germany over the weekend was extraordinarily timely and impactful—and it was delivered before an audience that badly needed to hear it in these perilous times.

The assembled leaders and diplomats, mostly from Europe and across the Western world, heard Secretary Rubio deliver a rousing defense of Judeo-Christian Western civilization. It was a call for the West to unite around our shared history, values, and Christian heritage—and to proudly stand for faith, family, and freedom. Rubio received a standing ovation when he was done, and for good reason.

The Secretary of State powerfully articulated:

For the United States and Europe, we belong together. America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.

 

We are part of one civilization — Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.

He’s exactly right. Rubio went on to say that the fate of the United States and Europe is intertwined. And yet in recent decades, Europe has turned away from that history and those values that made Western civilization the freest, most powerful, and most prosperous the world has ever known.

European nations, not to mention Canada and Australia, have embraced open borders and mass Muslim migration. They have pushed woke gender madness and climate change hysteria. They have refused to take their own national defense seriously. They have seen a rise in anti-Christian and antisemitic sentiments. They have not hesitated to censor, even arrest, anyone who dares speak out against the madness.

Secretary Rubio implored Europe to remember what they’re giving away before it’s too late:

The fundamental question we must answer at the outset is what exactly are we defending, because armies do not fight for abstractions. Armies fight for a people; armies fight for a nation. Armies fight for a way of life. And that is what we are defending: a great civilization that has every reason to be proud of its history, confident of its future, and aims to always be the master of its own economic and political destiny.

 

It was here in Europe where the ideas that planted the seeds of liberty that changed the world were born. It was here in Europe where the world — which gave the world the rule of law, the universities, and the scientific revolution… They testify not just to the greatness of our past or to a faith in God that inspired these marvels. They foreshadow the wonders that await us in our future. But only if we are unapologetic in our heritage and proud of this common inheritance can we together begin the work of envisioning and shaping our economic and our political future.

Very well said!

Rubio called for a new Western century. But that cannot happen if mass migration continues to transform Western societies into something unrecognizable.

Together, we can not only take back control of our own industries and supply chains — we can prosper in the areas that will define the 21st century.

 

But we must also gain control of our national borders. Controlling who and how many people enter our countries, this is not an expression of xenophobia. It is not hate. It is a fundamental act of national sovereignty. And the failure to do so is not just an abdication of one of our most basic duties owed to our people. It is an urgent threat to the fabric of our societies and the survival of our civilization itself.

 

Mass migration is not, was not, some fringe concern of little consequence. It was, and continues to be, a crisis which is transforming and destabilizing societies all across the West.

If you have any doubt about what Secretary Rubio is saying, consider that in practically every European nation, Islam is the fastest-growing religion—and it’s not even close.

That’s why Rubio had to deliver some hard truths in Munich, but he did it all in a tone of optimism and encouragement:

This is what we did together once before, and this is what President Trump and the United States want to do again now, together with you. 

 

And this is why we do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker.  We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength.  This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame.  We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who, together with us, are willing and able to defend it. 

 

And this is why we do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than reckon with what is necessary to fix it, for we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.  We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history.

What an incredible speech from Secretary Rubio, channeling great leaders of the past like Reagan and Churchill. It came during a very critical hour; the stakes have never been higher. China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Islam on the march, and an unholy alliance between the woke left and Islam that seeks to destroy the Judeo-Christian West and replace it with something from your worst nightmare.

Colonel Richard Kemp, a good friend and the former commander of all British forces in Afghanistan, talked recently about what could lie ahead for his country, the UK, and it should make everyone sit up and take notice. Remember, this is Great Britain we’re talking about.

“No government—neither the government now nor a prospective government of the UK—has the guts to stop it,” Kemp warned. “If they want to take strong action to prevent the Islamification of the UK, then it’s going to mean big trouble for them. They don’t want trouble. They look four years ahead. They will kick the can down the road to somebody else.”

“I think the end result of that is very likely to be civil war in Britain,” he emphasized. “I’m not talking about the American Civil War… something more like Northern Ireland, but on a much more intensive scale, where you have the indigenous British, some of the immigrant population, and the British government, all on three different sides fighting against each other. I’d be very surprised if that doesn’t happen, because there’s no prospect of the government—any government today—stopping this from occurring.”

America, are you paying attention? Great Britain is arguably our closest ally in the world, our cousin across the pond, and because of weak leadership that despises its own people, the abandonment of Christian heritage and values, and an embrace of mass Muslim migration, Great Britain—a nuclear-armed nation—could be staring at civil war in the not-so-distant future.

Now you see why Secretary Rubio’s speech in Munich was delivered with such urgency. And now you see why preserving our history and way of life is so important.

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Erick Stakelbeck is an author, analyst, host of “The Watchman” program, and the Director of Christians United for Israel’s CUFI Watchman Project.

 

 

Source: Rubio Delivers One Of The Most Important Speeches Since The End Of World War II – Harbinger’s Daily